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iINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DARIUS STEBBINS, OF CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HENRY H. RICE AND EDWVARD T. CORN- WALL, OF SAME PLACE, AND EDWARD A. CORNWALL.

BUCKBOARD-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,035, dated May 5, 1885. Application filed September 10, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, DARIUS SrEBBINs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chesl1- ire, in the county of New Haven and State of Fig. 3 is a front view, andFig. 4 shows a modified form, of one of the upper slats, or a form of construction in which an upper slat and the I 5 box are made in one piece.

My invention relates to thatclass of fourwheel vehicles which arecalled buckboards. These vehicles are variously constructed, and as often constructed the slats have their rear 20 ends fastened to the rear axle and their front ends to the rocker on the front axle. As thus constructed the springing is the greatest in the middle of the slats and ceases at their ends. The result is that the feet of the rider rest on 25 those parts of the slats in whichthere is little or no spring, and are consequently jarred.

The object of my invention is to remedy this defect in this class of buckboards.

To this end the invention consists in making 30 an additional series of slats and in arranging the same over the series of slats ordinarily used, as the invention is hereinafter more fully described and explained.

A, Fig. 1, are slats, the rear ends of which 3 5 are fastened to the rear axle and the front ends of which are fastened to the rocker E on the front axle. Near the middle of these slats a block or box, 0, extends across the slats, and

above thelower series of slats, A, are arranged on the box 0 a like series of shorter slats, B, which are firmly bolted to the lower slats by bolts, which pass through both series of slat-s and the box C. An opening may be made in the box 0 on its rear side which will be accessible, or, if preferred, in either end. On this upper series of slats the seat is arranged in the same manner as it is ordinarily arranged on the lower series. The dash D is also arranged on their front ends and fastened in the same manner as it is ordinarily fastened on the front ends of the lower series of slats in this class of buckboards.

Constructed and arranged as above described and as shown, it is obvious that the upper series ofslats will have a uniform motion throughout their whole length and the same motion as the lower series of slats have in the middle or in those parts over which the box 0 is arranged.

Having describcd my improvement in this class of vehicles, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a wagon or other vehicle, a buckboard consisting of an upper and lower series of slats and of a box, all the said parts bolted to 6 5 gether, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DARIUS STEBBINS.

Witnesses:

M. O. DOOLITTLE, H. T. Moss. 

